Antony Evans is the co-founder of the Glowing Plant project, in San Francisco, a synthetic biology application using bioluminescent to make plants glow in the dark. Unlike the European Union, the US does not ‘clearly’ regulate the approach that is used by Antony’s team, and his project did spark a heated debate in the US.…
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Because of reasons like wars, religions and political events, political analysts think that 5 countries in Middle East would be 14. Examples are the anti- government protests in Iraq, the civil war in Syria and the uprising in Lybia. Maybe in 30 years Syria could divide into 3 countries; Alawites, A Syrian Kurdistan and The…
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1930- THE SALT MARCH Around 1920-40 there was a big protest in India led by Mohandas “Mahatma” Gandhi (1869 – 1948). In 1930 there was a march called “The Salt March”.To protest at the government’s salt tax, Gandhi proposed a 240-mile march from Ahmedabad to the coastal town of Dandi. The reason for this march…
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The human rights issue continues in Iran, although this time they are looking to put a stop to it all. The Iranian president Hassan Rouhani made a speech in the UN that gave hope to the minority groups in Iran. After the speech that Hassan Rouhani made on the 24th of September 2013, the…
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In September 29, 2013, New York Times remapped the Middle East, mostly dividing the countries by people’s ethnic origins, for example Kurdistan and Alawitestan, or their sects, such as Sunnistan. In the map, Libya, Syria, Iraq and Saudi Arabia are divided to 14 other countries. From this map we can see the minority nations declared…
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Below are two pieces of news, one from 1920 and the other from 2013. Almost a century apart, news coverage of the same topic, a bomb which has blasted, has some differences and many similarities. Detroit, June 18, 1020 — County Building Shaken, Windows Shattered and Hundreds Panic-Stricken, ‘Purple’ Gang Suspected. A devastating blast which injured…
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Without exception, all agreed that humor was the most outstanding part of the Gezi protests in Turkey. The naive groups had been exposed to the severity of police brutality even when the intention of the groups had been entirely apolitical at the beginning. Essentialy, they simply asked for liberty and privacy in their own humorous…
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In the last hundred years, Turkey went through a series of political standoffs between the secular and Islamist/Muslim Conservative groups. For many years the Turkish Armed Forces undemocratically implemented secular domination in upper society and government organizations. Secularism was made an official state ideology. Even though Turkish elites, who were educated with Western values disapproved…
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Just another teddy bear the nurses give to children to calm them down while using medical devices… But the only difference is that this teddy bear IS the medical device! The Teddy Guardian has been invented by two masters students (Majic and Burica) in Zagreb, Croatia. The students, who realized that the kids in the…
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The co-founders of Backyard Brains, Greg Gage and Tim Marzullo created a project where you can control a cockroach. The company ship live cockroaches attached with a microelectronic hardware and a surgical kit to control the cockroach to the people who want it. Electrodes that feed into their antennae control their movements. Even though Gage…
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Last year a robot made by Boston Dynamics, called Cheetah, managed to outrun the world’s fastest man Usain Bolt on a treadmill. Back then, it was plugged in and supported by electricity. This year they have upgraded the Cheetah and managed to add more abilities to the robot. They called the new version WildCat. The…
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A couple of trees could have been saved if just the Turkish youth had fought for them, but millions chose to fight for something else, something much greater through the help of the trees at Taksim Gezi Park: Democracy, Trust and Solidarity. At the very beginning of the Gezi Park protests, it was only a…
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